Guryongpo Japanese House Street구룡포 일본인 가옥거리

At a glance

Japanese fishermen began settling in Guryongpo after the 1883 Joseon–Japan trade regulations, and as Japan built the port and took over the east-coast fisheries, Korean fishing rights were pushed aside. Forty-seven Japanese-style wooden buildings remain, and Pohang City restored the street in 2010 as a place to learn that history. A settler's house is now the Guryongpo Modern History Museum, the old Furusatoya restaurant is a teahouse, and the street played Ongsan, the seaside town in the drama When the Camellia Blooms.

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Guryongpo Japanese House Street · 4 tours & tickets

1. GetYourGuidePohang highlights small-group tour from BusanAn 11–12.5 hour small-group tour from Busan: Homigot Sunrise Square, Guryongpo Japanese House Street, Hwanho Park Space Walk and Jukdo Market.Book
2. KKdayPohang day tour from BusanA day tour from Busan to the Space Walk in Hwanho Park, Guryongpo Japanese House Street and Homigot.Book
3. KlookSpace Walk & Homigot day tourA day tour from Busan or Pohang, running roughly 07:30–19:00, to Hwanho Park Space Walk, Guryongpo Japanese House Street and Homigot Sunrise Square.Book
4. KKdayPohang private day tour from DaeguA private day tour from Daegu to the Space Walk, Yeongildae Beach, Homigot and Guryongpo.Book

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Tips

• 01
  Climb the park steps above the street for a view over the fishing harbor.
• 02
  The Gwamegi Culture Center and the Guryongpo columnar joints are nearby.

Nearby

Homigot Sunrise SquareThe 'tiger's tail' at Korea's eastern tip, where the bronze Hands of Harmony rise from the land and the sea to meet the sunrise.Hwanho Park Space WalkA walk-on steel sculpture in Hwanho Park: 333 m of looping track and 717 steps, with views over Pohang and Yeongil Bay.Yeongildae BeachA city beach on Yeongil Bay in northern Pohang, with fine sand, gentle shallows and the POSCO steelworks across the water.